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ADMIT

Yes, ADMIT was the Wordle answer on September 25, 2022 (Wordle #463).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪt/

Verb

To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration.

“to admit a serious thought into the mind”

Verb

To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.

“to admit an attorney to practice law”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 25, 2022 (#463).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 25, 2022 (#463).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How ADMIT performs as a guess

ADMIT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 184 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,950 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___T A in the 1st position and T in the 5th position A__I_ A in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _D__T D in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in ADMIT.

First-turn measures

All four describe ADMIT used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.63 Entropy (bits)
184 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ADMIT performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,950 Rank among openers
Opening with ADMIT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #2,950 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
948
4 guesses
1,154
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
24%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
A D M I T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ADMIT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ADMIT can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

449 answers
334 answers
205 answers
128 answers
115 answers
112 answers
80 answers
65 answers
62 answers
59 answers
59 answers
58 answers
54 answers
53 answers
47 answers
39 answers
32 answers
30 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for ADMIT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

A1D2M3I1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

SOLER CARSE RINSE SHOER DRONE TARTE

Strategy after playing ADMIT

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ADMIT.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ADMIT:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
14% chance
Suggested:
CARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
RINSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

18.9% →
SOLER 6.02 bits
14.1% →
CARSE 5.60 bits
8.6% →
RINSE 5.37 bits
5.4% →
SHOER 5.59 bits
4.8% →
DRONE 5.28 bits
4.7% →
TARTE 4.87 bits
3.4% →
SOREL 5.10 bits
2.7% →
SNARE 4.42 bits
2.6% →
CARLE 4.91 bits
2.5% →
TRITE 4.29 bits

Research on ADMIT

Game-tree analysis and word research for ADMIT, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with ADMIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,644 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ADMIT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHDMIHT.

Rhymes with SPLIT UNFIT BRITT REMIT REFIT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ADMIT is a kind of hold or let.

Synonyms take include hold ALLOW accept acknowledge

Opposites deny reject exclude

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ADMIT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 38 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.0 of 5).

In a sentence

You have to admit that.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I admit I do that.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).